The Soldier On Crutches (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
He came down the stairs on the laughter-filled grillWhere patriots were eating and drinking their fill,The tap of his crutch ...
He came down the stairs on the laughter-filled grillWhere patriots were eating and drinking their fill,The tap of his crutch ...
OUT of the darkness and shadow of death,Out of the anguish that wells from the tomb,Into the splendor of spiritual ...
Who is it lives to the full every minute,Gets all the joy and the fun that is in it?Tough as ...
If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me;I'd answer every challenge to my will.Though mountains stood in ...
When an empty sleeve or a sightless eyeOr a legless form I see,I breathe my thanks to my God on ...
We understand a lot of things we never did before,And it seems that to each other Ma and I are ...
Think happy thoughts!Think sunshine all the day;Refuse to let the trifling worries stay,Crowd them with thoughts of laughter from your ...
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting ...
I'm sorry for a fellow if he cannot look and seeIn a grate fire's friendly flaming all the joys which ...
The bright spots in my life are when the servant quits the place,Although that grim disturbance brings a frown to ...
I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook, And how we have to hustle round for it ...
The green is in the meadow and the blue is in the sky,And all of Nature's artists have their colors ...
Lord, we've had our little wrangles, an' we've had our little bouts;There's many a time, I reckon, that we have ...
'Tis a little old house with a squeak in the stairs,And a porch that seems made for just two easy ...
If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along,If each every minute looked after himself and good things ...
Rough is the road I am journeying now, Heavy the burden I'm bearing to-day; ...
The glory of a soldier-and a soldier's not a saint-Is the way he does his duty without grumbling or complaint;His ...
I've watched him change from his bibs and things, from bonnets known as "cute,"To little frocks, and later on I ...
HE'D made a fortune out of stocks, he couldn't count his worth; He 'd hoarded up a store of gold, ...
Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at ...
Bit of a priest and a bit of sailor,Bit of a doctor and bit of a tailor,Bit of a lawyer, ...
OF ALL the ships that sail life's sea,The Comradeship's the one for me;In weather fair or weather foul,A pleasant breeze ...
I HOLD the finest picture-booksAre woods an' fields an' runnin' brooks;An' when the month o' May has doneHer paintin', an' ...
A boy and his dad on a fishing trip- There is a glorious fellowship!Father and son and the open sky, ...
I START the day with paper white, And put it in my old machine, And wonder whether, as I write ...
Way out in the woods there are brothers who readBy the light of a candle, in Greek, And in far ...
Though some may yearn for titles great, and seek the frills of fame,I do not care to have an extra ...
He wears a long and solemn faceAnd drives the children from his place;He doesn't like to hear them shoutOr race ...
NOT over there do I awaitReward for patience here below,Not over there at Heaven's gateIs all the joy that I ...
The joy of life is living it, or so it seems to me;In finding shackles on your wrists, then struggling ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories